Welcome to a brand new city whose rules and destiny have yet to be written.
This litepaper is a breakdown of the founding team vision and current project trajectories. It will evolve with you, the community, to create a manga and a whole new world in the image of our wildest dreams.
We wrote the development of the project around 5 majors points:
1. The Vision
2. The Mindmap
3. The First drop
4. Technicals
5. Team
Please feel free to share your feedback and/or questions on Twitter or by coming chatting with us on our discord server.
twitter : https://twitter.com/RagersCity
website: https://ragerscity.com
discord : https://discord.gg/PdDEjZBF8u
1. THE VISION
Our ambition is to give birth to the One Piece, Naruto or Bleach of today — an explosive, contemporary community-driven manga and brand, made to be freely used and derivated by all the Ragers.
The official MANGA
Our main focus is to co-produce, with all the holders, an official manga exploring a brand new universe which is to be written by all of us, the Ragers. The first volume is already in production and coming out in September — you can already find more sketches and concept arts in our discord -, with both a tokenized and a print version. The tokenized editions of each volume will be regularly airdropped to every holder.
Ragers City is mostly a manga-driven community.
It is also, by design, a community-driven manga.
You will write the story at our side by taking on-chain votes.
You will choose what comes next from the official mindmap.
You will feel what it’s like to be the first to set foot.
You will discover a new world. Explore it. Shiver. Build it.
You will remember what the word Freedom meant..
Our city. Our rules.
THE BRAND
The second focus is to build an ever-fulminating brand and a complete ecosystem around it — Ragers City brand is free to derivate and monetize for all the holders, so that you can all fully harness the value of our common project and forge your own path and opportunities.
Together, we will build a new contender as the crossroads of manga, entertainment and web3 while driving a ton of value to our community.
2. THE MINDMAP
RagersCity is not a single NFT collection. Ragers City is a community-driven manga, a brand, NFT drops and much more.
Creating a community-driven manga and building tomorrow’s projects together IS our primary utility. It is already, on its own, a colossal task if carried out properly.
Creating a resonating brand, co-owned, distributed and monetized by the community is our second focus. Even though the official team will be there to deliver on the official roadmap, we want holders to be able to seize the RagersCity brand to its full economic potential.
We have a whole ecosystem to create together, which will be divided into 2 different sections : main and side utilities.
Main utilities
· Official manga (tokenized and physical)
· Community-driven world and story
· Open Commercial rights (create and distribute derivative products/collections using RagersCity brand)
By owning a Ragers City, you will be able to influence the story of the world we’re building together, but also to create derivative products and or/collections that will allow you to use the brand’s notoriety to build and monetize new products/services/drops. Ragers City will become a brand but above all, a fully-fledged ecosystem that supports itself.
Side utilities
- Brand expansion (brand partnerships, collab merch, Ragers themed Parties, manga festivals, metacomicon, …)
- Derivatives products (official merch, figurines, collector editions, …) and collections (upgrades, convert, …)
- Exclusive NFT drops
- MangakaDAO
- Gaming experiences
We have a lot of ideas on how to bring more value to our holders. We have already started explored and moved forward on these 6 side utilities.
We are already hyped to meet you IRL and deliver on all this!
Meet Noah, the main character of our original story.
3. THE FIRST DROP
As you know, we will not create a single NFT collection, but an ecosystem of collections.
Our first drop is a hand-drawn and fully-animated 5,000 NFTs collection featuring more than 200 attributes spread over the 5 main characters of our official manga. They are the current masterpieces of this universe, yet also just a part of a wider story, only a prequel to something bigger.
Each Rager is a unique & random combination of several traits, drawing from that 200+ traits pool. Some traits are rarer and come in two versions :
- static
- fully animated
The more animated, the more powerful and the rarer your Rager is!
Ragers match the profile picture (PFP) format and will come with both an HD JPEG and a GIF.
All the characters and attributes were imagined, drawn and animated by Nina, our gifted artist.
Owning an NFT from this main collection gives you ALL the benefits of the main and side utilities. Your NFT will not be consumed to participate in all these online & IRL events and grants a lifelong Ragers City citizenship as long as you hold it.
Traits categories
Below are the different traits categories and the corresponding number of traits that can define your Rager:
- Character
- Background
- Background decoration
- Hair
- Eyes
- Mouth
- Face accessory
- Earrings
- Glasses
- Mask
- Neck
- Neck tattoo
- Body scar
- Accessory
- Clothing
- Clothing 2
- Clothing 3
- Effects
We literally cannot wait for the reveal!
How to join the whitelist?
The mint of the Ragers City collection will take place in two stages:
- A pre-sale of 1555 units which will take place on a Whitelist basis only.
To register to the whitelist, you just have to join our official open Premint whitelist: https://www.premint.xyz/ragers/
2. A public sale of 3445 units, accessible to all.
Official mint website: https://app.ragerscity.com/mint
4. TECHNICALS
- Living on the Ethereum blockchain as ERC721A tokens (almost NO gas fees)
- Permanent, decentralized storage on ARWEAVE (permaweb)
Smart contract address : being deployed
Max supply : 5,000
5. THE TEAM
RAGERS was founded by Quentin & Theo a group of passionate artists, storytellers and marketers.
Our beautiful art is imagined and shaped by Leïla.
Smart contract and technical development are led by Antoine, who has been building applications used all over the world for the past few years. Since early 2021 he has also worked on the technical side of multiple web3 projects.
The strategy is led by Joachim, an entrepreneur of several successful businesses and advisor of web3 startups.
Community management is led by Alexandra, who will take care of our community with passion, love and happiness.
Partnership is led by Yohan, he likes to connect with people and bring value to our community.
Social media is led by Arthur & Liam, they will create all announcements and tweets to keep you tuned.
Our mission starts here.
This is our dynasty in the making.
We are Ragers.
